South Korea's Latest Food Craze: Gigantic Rodents?

About 70 cm in length and weighing over five kilogram in maturity, a nutria looks fuzzy and cuddly…if you discount the fact that it is basically a big rat. Nutria, also known as copyu, comes from Latin America. Improbably, in South Korea, it is taking off as medicine and a culinary delicacy. The latest craze began when a cable channel TV Chosun ran an “exclusive” [http://news.tvchosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/01/30/2017013090157.html] on Jan. 30 that nutria bile may contain 20 times the leve